INFORMATION ON THE TRAINING

Become a Perinatal Yoga Teacher & Yoga-Doula® :

Perinatal Yoga refers to pre and postnatal yoga classes. The perinatal Yoga teacher & Yoga-Doula training is composed of 21 days of training + 200 hours of home study and practice.

In The Perinatal & Yoga-Doula training you will learn how the ancestral knowledge of yoga and Ayurvedic life style answer the needs of modern women in their journey of becoming mothers.

You will train to offer pre and postnatal yoga classes (perinatal=around birth); You will train to become a Yoga-Doula, equipped to offer non-medical support for mothers throughout pregnancy, birth and during the postnatal months.

What is a Yoga-Doula?

Yoga-Doula refers to A person who offers the expectant mother (and family) a non-medical accompaniment based on Yoga practice & Humanology (practical yogic lifestyle and wellness).

This support covers pregnancy, birth and postnatal periods.

Through global yoga approach and empathic communication skills, the trained Yoga-Doula can offer physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical tools to uplift and empower mothers & fathers during these three stages of Be-coming parents.

The Yoga-Doula is trained to support mother/partner/family from conception to the 9 month period after birth.

This non-medical support is complementary to professional medical follow-up and doesn’t replace it.

The Yoga-Doula is trained to:

Offer prenatal group and individual yoga classes

Offer prenatal class for couples

Support the mother along pregnancy’s transformations

Accompany the couple’s transformation from lovers to parents

Prepare the couple for birth, support the father

Offer empathic presence and comfort the mother/father throughout birth

“Mother the mother” during the delicate 40 postnatal days

Offer postnatal yoga and other support groups for mother and baby.

“Every woman is a mother, even if her body has not given birth” Yogi Bhajan.

TRAINING IS OPEN TO ALL :

women wanting to explore their feminine & mothering story and potential

women or men dedicated to supporting mothers and fathers-to-be.

Pregnant women/couples with or without their partner may participate “à la carte”